A Dartmouth College research team has reported that plasmids can force bacteria to form dense clusters in order to tolerate antibiotics which suggests a source of treatment failure that does not ...

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

A University of Alberta research team has identified a new drug target to treat harmful E. coli bacteria—which cause nearly ...

Bacterial infections pose significant challenges to agriculture and medicine, especially as cases of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to rise. In response, scientists are elucidating the ways ...

We often hear about bacteria, but what exactly are they? A bacterium is a living organism that consists of a single cell (unicellular). It has ...